But it’s shorter!

Not a 7900 but my 5900 does for sure.

I’m not super-familiar with mod managers in general but my experience has been that they just work with proton more than you might expect. I know for sure that unity mod manager works fine in proton; I use it for railroader.

I mean the answer is pretty easy: video games generally have a long shelf life and no maintenance at some point after they’re released.

Because either way you’re taking a risk.

Security flaws and aging hardware are two obvious problems.

I’d very much question why you’d use windows 10 over something better supported— maybe not Linux but at least Windows Server OS.

It’s definitely a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

It’s definitely an AMD graphics card crash.

I think the clear answer is that there is no real reason other than habit and sunk cost fallacy.

See also the metric system, A4 paper, and daylight-saving time.

ITT: defensive answers and ISO-8601 supporters.

Yes. You could use vlc or even as an iso file just open them as a virtual drive.

Eager but tentative?

Usually tentative means they are not so eager.

What’s with that disaster of colorized text?

The drive had a sensor that detected the notch status and either allowed (or not) the write ability.

Basically the same as SD cards today, it’s just assumed that the drive will respect that switch.

Older 5.25-inch floppies you would cut a notch in a specific place, and you could use tape to cover it and make it writable again.

VHS and audio cassettes work the same way too.

I dunno that I’d consider Brave to be “the right thing” but more variety/competition is best!

I’d describe it as making computer systems reliable.

Why is that? What do you feel is the downside?

Yes, kind of.

Someone might correct me if I’m wrong but it’s that, plus extra tooling to redirect the stuff that needs to be writable, plus more extra tooling to allow you to temporarily unlock the read-only parts in order to do system updates, plus a system updater that puts the whole system more-or-less under version control.

I felt a compatibility module wouldn’t offer nearly as good performance/efficiency as a game designed to run on Linux/ext4 - but are you saying that playing via Proton is fine?

Can confirm, it’s fine. There’s some variability of course but taken as a whole the environment is comparable in terms of performance. As long as you’re not playing AAA competitive games that have anti-cheat you are going to be fine with few exceptions. And there are plenty of examples where the proton experience works better than the native.

Check protondb to get a realistic idea of how well games will work.

It’s dropping as in “experiencing a fall in numbers” (back to normal levels) not as in “removing from support” nor as in “delivered to the world”

They may have removed it from the reporting or corrected for some previous change in reporting methodology.

Honestly it’s easy to get that definition of DEI when it is poorly explained and/or poorly understood.

Plenty of people particularly on the right believe all the explanatory reasoning behind DEI is thinly-veiled “reverse racism”.